Russia accused the countries supporting the Syrian rebel militias of inciting further violence following a bomb attack in Damascus that killed three top security officials, including Defense Minister Gen. Daoud Rajha and Asef Shawkat, the deputy military chief of staff and President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law.
Wednesday’s violence prompted Western leaders to reiterate the ongoing violence and to claim that Bashar al-Assad’s time has come. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said in a Pentagon news conference that Syrian violence is “rapidly spinning out of control.”
Russian officials, who have firmly opposed Western military intervention against the Assad regime, emphasized what experts have been warning about for months. “Instead of calming the opposition down, some of our partners are inciting it to go on,” said Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
Incidentally, British Defense Minister Philip Hammond seemed to agree with Lavrov, during the same news conference with Panetta. He said, “I think what we’re seeing is an opposition which is emboldened, clearly an opposition with access increasingly to weaponry.”
Washington is actively supporting the rebel militias with arms and resources, despite the fact that they have deep ties to al-Qaeda. The pressure to unseat Assad comes with no concern for the potential boost Sunni extremists will get in his wake.
UN rights chief Navi Pillay last month condemned the continued flow of weapons from foreign powers to both sides in the Syrian conflict. “The ongoing provision of arms to the Syrian government and to its opponents feeds additional violence,” she said in the text of remarks made to the Security Council. “Any further militarization of the conflict must be avoided at all costs.”
The United Nations Security Council postponed until Thursday a vote on a Western-backed resolution that threatens Syrian authorities with sanctions. Russia’s imminent veto prompted envoy Kofi Annan to request the delay so further talks could be held.
So thats the new Western Democracy.
Bomb, kill and assassinate your Leaders and we will supply you with arms and call you "freedom fighters"
But not if you are in Bahrain – then you are TERRORISTS
“The ongoing provision of arms to the Syrian government and to its opponents feeds additional violence,”
No mention of who's been providing weapons – for years – to the Syrian government? I guess Russian TV doesn't mention that it's Russia?
Isn't that legal? Hasn't the US been providing weapons to other countries under legal agreements? What we have here is the criminal provision of weapons to terrorists in order to take down a government just because it's not ideologically appropiate for the west. Taht you cannot understand that doesn't surprise me. If you feel so strong about unseating Assad, why don't you go and fight for your beliefs.
america is wallowing in debt and floundering still able to cause upheaval worldwide.
The UN is a building located in NY, has no there are hundreds of people are going in and out of this building, is business institution as any other wall street building is. The only thing is different is that here
they do not resolve their political business conducted by US militarism and EU non-democratical system.
The idea behind UN was to for nations to become united, thanks to US and English undemocratic liberalism the idea has changed, in one part it is what is called “civilized” and in the other is what is called a “non civilized” societies, or if you will third world. The civilized world needs to be attacking the non civilized, murdering people, destroying countries to show their civilization and force their civilizations on third world, a kind of falsified enforced democracy based on the militarism – capitalism civilization, which based on their economic system and the system is either supporting militarism like US or EU a falsified democracy getting to become a militarism regimes, like Sweden.
One of the reasons for all these wars is the "civilized world” or if you will robotized – industrialized world need of natural resources, that makes them more eager to continue with their war mongering toward nations, showing that "third world" natural resources is not theirs and they can not use it, so the civilized world needs to take it from them.
In last 60 years of war conducted by US and EU non have been about democracy, all these wars are about US and EU wanting to control the world economy, non of these countries attacked by the US living a better life nor there is a functioning democracy in place, rest is BS talks by civilized white or black, red or green entities of militarism and its economic system capitalism.
Corrections: 1- UN has no power over anything, there are hundreds of people going in and out this building, is a business institution as any other wall street buildings. The only thing different is that UN building is a political business offices of political power played by US and EU, bought and sold by EU and US to the highest bider. Just look at the war crimes committed by US and English and rest of the EU countries, yet non of the criminals are prosecuted but the people from Africa, Middle east and Eastern Europe mysteriously have died in what is ICC.
US sends into their target countries their terrorists and revolution maker Otpor,
than the government of the victim country is called dictatorship and brutal
than humanitarian bombing begins
and the president of teh victim country is killed by terrorists or in the ICC when it is proofed that the victim is innocent – like Milosevic:
Milosevic did not deport or destroy Albanian population of Kosovo at all. This has been proven by the court in Den Haag:
They had a staged written claim of a top secret service man, but in the last second he decided to tell that he has been bribed and treated to claim such false accusations against Milosevic.
It is very amusing to see this:
3:23 Introduction, 3:50 of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfoNuS_3og
Also excellent: "Srebrenica massacre" and resurrection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7eLuamXUGk